Yeah, it’s Paramount taking a dump on the fanbase, which is nothing new.

“No U.S. Olympic team has ever had more than one Olympic all-around winner.”

Agreed. Prodigy has a better chance of being picked up than other shows in its position.

I can’t recall the source, but I believe the Picard rumor is partly true. Tuvok’s scene with Seven in the series finale, where she is promoted to Captain, was originally supposed to include Janeway and Harry Kim (also a Captain) as well. It was cut because Harry Kim can never be anything but an Ensign for budget…

IMO casting this as Paramount taking a dump on Mulgrew is a bit of hyperbole.

It’s good to remember that, reportedly, Janeway wasn’t allowed to appear in Picard s3 because she was considered exclusive to Prodigy. I forget if it was theorized or confirmed, but Tuvok’s appearances (especially the one at the end where Seven is promoted to Captain) may have originally been planned for Janeway. So…

I have to admit, I wasn’t sure about the series at the start, but by the end I was sold on it. The kids were given opportunity to grow, we had some plot threads laid down for the next season. I want to see where the next steps in these characters journey goes. My kid (the target audience!) enjoyed watching it with me!…

I love me a good Tuvix joke, but Janeway really was a fine character and Kate Mulgrew was exemplary in the role. It’s disappointing to see Prodigy go down this way.

Captain Janeway / Voyager is my jam always and forever.

Not gonna lie — Voyager wasn’t my thing (it was my wife’s thing); probably at the bottom of my Trek viewing lists.

The American conceptualization of freedom is being able to choose Coke or Pepsi, not having any sort of control over the conditions of our employment. There is no limit to the amount of tyranny and authoritarianism we will tolerate from the private sector so long as we get our treats.

Prime’s library of content is even more anemic than Netflix.  If it weren’t for the free delivery, I wouldn’t bother with it at all.

But they offer coupons for free diapers!* What more could any scared or broke expectant mother need?

Makes sense. I’m sure I have a comment somewhere that it doesn’t make sense to have an ad-based tier and low tier within a couple of bucks of each other. It brings their pricing for their tiers more inline with other services:

A WGA writer wrote a comment on AV Club in April saying basically the same thing. That yeah while the CEO and other execs should make less, those ~50 million bucks/year (or whatever) are a drop in the bucket and there’s no possible way to compensate the writers and crew on 10 or 15 bucks per subscriber.

“Maya gradually recovered without needing any more ketamine treatments.”

From my vague recollections, FL CPS for the longest time practiced the policy of keeping families together, resulting in many children suffering prolonged abuse and even death even after the abuse was reported and confirmed. Investigations and public pressure led to a change in policy, some would say over-correction.…

I wonder if overcorrection is also at play. Deedee Blanchard intentionally gave incorrect family medical history and identity information to keep anyone from connecting the dots and she fired the doctor who told her Gypsy didn’t need a wheelchair because she didn’t have muscular dystrophy.

Same thing happened with the Duggar kids. Jimmy Bob kept all the money and signed all the contracts with TLC even when the kids were adults. They had zero accounting of how Jim Bob spent the money.

“Though Maya’s doctors made several appeals, insisting that her condition was always subject to change and that a slight improvement in state custody had nothing to do with being away from her mother, a judge repeatedly ruled against the Kowalskis and the family was kept from Maya.”